... between different groups in society and illustrate that there is an apparent inequality for certain classes, genders and ethnicities. Firstly, sociological research of recent years has shown that students of ethnic minorities have generally attained lower results than their peers. The Swann Report (1985) outlined the differences in academic attainment amongst ethnic minority groups. The study found that West Indian children particularly do worse than whites, however Asians did almost as well as the whites or 'others'. Within the Swann Report study, only five percent of West Indian students passed at least one 'A' Level and just one percent went on to university compared with thirteen percent of others getting at least one 'A' Level and four percent going on to university. (Haralambos and Holborn, 2002, pg868). There have been many explanations for the reason behind the inequality, Jensen & Eysenck have argued that blacks inherited their lower levels of ...

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